Quick and Easy Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

As soon as the weather turns cold I start craving chicken noodle soup.

With a cold grey sky outside today seemed like the perfect day for some chicken noodle soup for dinner, so I got my veggies started, added some water and grabbed what I thought was some homemade chicken stock out of the freezer and dumped it into the pot. It wasn’t until the ‘stock’ had defrosted into my soup that I realised that it wasn’t chicken stock at all, but apple sauce!

Noooo! That’s a whole pot of chicken noodle soup ruined!

Thankfully I hadn’t added the chicken yet and this chicken noodle soup is super easy, and fairly quick to make… so I started again.

My grandmother told me the best soups are simmer on the stove for days, and I know lots of people who make great soup in a slowcooker/crock pot, and I am sure those long, slow cooked soups are delicious, but I have a to do list a mile long, so I am all about quick and easy dinners, and this chicken noodle soup fits the bill.

The reason this soup is quick and easy is because I kinda cheat a little bit –

I use homemade chicken stock from my freezer (not apple sauce), or you can use shop bought stock if you like.

I use leftover roast chicken, shredded into the soup, instead cooking chicken from scratch.

If I’m really pushed for time I use frozen veggies. You can add whatever veggies your family likes, we like carrot and broccoli.

And I use rice vermicelli noodles which cook in a couple of minutes, but you could use whatever noodles you like, even zoodles.

You cook the veggies first, along with the garlic and spring onion, which will only take a minute or two if you used frozen veggies. Then add your stock, chicken and lastly noodles and you are done. Delicious, quick and easy chicken noodle soup to warm us up from the inside out!